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Month: January 2024

A love song for a train?

A love song for a train?

Photo by Kaja Kadlecova on Unsplash I’ve had a tune running through me head and I wanted to share it with you. It’s a delightful, happy song that my mother listened to on occasion. As her favorite music was classical, with a smattering of opera, I had assumed  this was an aira from something like The Barber of Seville. Hearing this song brings back memories of Bugs Bunny’s “Rabbit of Seville” episode. Imagine my surprise when I discovered was composed in conjunction with the …

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Miscellaneous Monday – Random Thoughts on the Future

Miscellaneous Monday – Random Thoughts on the Future

Well, it seems I am back. We had a bout of sickness in the family last month (my wife got hit with both the flu then Covid) and I have not really had the energy or interest in blogging. Some of it I will put down to just a general sense of malaise. It must be January, which for a time was positively Arctic where I live. Now that we are back into decent temperatures for the moment and I…

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What’s up Wednesday? Not enough

What’s up Wednesday? Not enough

Feature Photo by JJ Jordan on Unsplash A little over two months ago, I announced that my next work would be a new version of “Hidden Desires”, a novel I published early in my writing career.  I made the announcement under the mistaken belief that I could tweak and adjust in short order, intending to reissue the improved version in  the first week of the new year (in my younger, formative years, I was judged immature and naive, traits that still seem…

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A bit of Regency Trivia to delight and astound.

A bit of Regency Trivia to delight and astound.

Featured image found at http://www.regencyhistory.net/2012/09/when-is-regency-era.html As I get back to my writing, I thought it might be fun to do a bit of trivia searching about the Regency era. To that end, here are five surprising facts about life in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century England. The majority of this information, plus a whole lot more, can be found at https://www.thevintagenews.com/2022/06/30/regency-era-facts/. When I write about Darcy, or Mr. Bennet, or any of my story participants traveling overnight, I have…

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The Most Incredible Adventure The Screen Has Ever Created!

The Most Incredible Adventure The Screen Has Ever Created!

Above image copied from http://waichingsthoughts81.blogspot.com/2017/04/weekend-tv-movie-review-airplane-1980.html In case you ‘re confused, I want to talk about the movie Airplane!, one of  funniest and most irreverent movies ever made in my humble opinion. The trailer is just a taste of the sheer zaniness of this flick. It was written and directed by Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker. This trio also gave us such gems as The Kentucky Fried Movie and, my all time favorite television series, Police Squad, which spawned the Naked Gun…

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As promised, an excerpt

As promised, an excerpt

I’m finally making progress on my Hidden Desires rewrite. The process is slow and a bit painful, as my source material has more than a few shortcomings. To confess, when I wrote the novel I suffered from an excess of hubris and actually thought my story was well constructed. For those who read that first edition, I apologize and offer the completed, although unedited, first chapter. Although fairly long, it provides the setting and sets the mood for the remainder of…

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The Year Ahead

The Year Ahead

Above image by Theo Crazzolara from Pixabay   The new year is here and tradition would have me listing a slew of resolutions concerning my 2024 writing goals. The problem, as I explained in a previous post, is that I am not much for announcing changes and intentions for the following twelve months. At best, my decisions will last two or three months, so why bother?  Image by Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay It’s not that I am a lazy person by nature,…

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